Doctors have accused ministers of “weaponising antisemitism” to silence healthcare professionals from speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.12 In a letter sent to the Department of Health and ...

New guidance published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggesting vaccines may cause autism has been slammed by medical and autism advocacy groups. A CDC webpage which ...

Boris Johnson’s government repeatedly did “too little, too late” in response to the covid pandemic and could have saved 23 000 lives in England if a lockdown had been imposed a week earlier, the UK ...

America feels familiar to a British person—until it doesn’t. Lucinda Hiam writes from the US, observing that nothing has felt more foreign than living in a country where the threat of gun violence is ...

Donald Trump’s government vowed to fix longstanding problems with the Food and Drug Administration. Almost a year into Trump’s second term, how is the FDA faring? Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee ...

Limited evidence to support a causal association In September 2025, the US president claimed that paracetamol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy caused autism.1 A linked umbrella review by Sheikh ...

Grace (also known by her married name of Grace Bryden) worked for many years in Glasgow’s pioneering domiciliary family planning service, helping to give women more choice and control in their lives, ...

New rules that force general practices in England to accept online queries from patients during core working hours are already risking harm to patients and increasing GPs’ workload and stress, a ...

Patients over 16 years with suspected sepsis should get smaller amounts of intravenous fluid initially and then have regular reassessments to tailor treatment, updated guidelines recommend.1 At least ...

The NHS sits seventh on the list of the world’s largest employers, rubbing shoulders with the armies of China, India, and the US, as well as mega-corporations.1 It’s also part of the “gig economy.” ...